
EXCLUSIVE: Colm Meaney is set to star opposite Anson Mount in AMC’s period drama pilot Hell on Wheels. The Endemol USA/Entertainment One-produced Western centers on Cullen (Mount), a former Confederate soldier tracking down the Union soldiers who killed his wife who winds up working on the Nebraska prairie’s Hell on Wheels’ portion of the transcontinental railroad. Meaney will play Thomas “Doc” Durant, a businessman determined to make his fortune building the transcontinental railroad, a man of vision and a self-serving opportunist who is capable of “creative financing.” Meaney joins previously cast Mount, Dominique McElligott and rapper-actor Common. Meaney, most recently seen in Get Him to the Greek, is repped by Innovative and manager Rick Ax.
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He was great in Con Air.
I spent half the movie hoping he’d be thrown from the helicopter.
But that was the point of the character. Hopefully.
Colm is awesome!
I hope they come up w/ a better name for this series. HOW sound like a bad Lifetime or Speed show.
This will go for one, maybe two seasons. If the guy is tied up woking on the railroad how does he manage to hunt these people down effectively? Change the title, it focuses to much on a ‘subplot’-his work at a railroad.
Here’s a title for it, “Don’t Tread on Me”, then a V.O. “Wars without rules never end”. Just a thought, maybe they can put it in a cannon and see if anybody blast’s it away.
This definitely makes perfect sense to me!!!